Two significant events will take place in September.
Read moreAn article in the London Telegraph by Jonathan Wynne-Jones this past week said Williams has told homosexuals that they need to change their behavior if they are to be welcomed into the church. The church, he said, must be a welcoming community but is not an inclusive one.
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8/22/2006
If nothing can stop the revisionist juggernaut in the Western Church bent on self immolation, so nothing can stop the spread of the gospel throughout the continent of Africa, torn as it is by tribal wars, poverty, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS and so much more.
Read moreThe Rt. Rev. Dorsey Henderson, Bishop of Upper South Carolina, is the senior bishop on the Committee and the rest of the episcopal members of the committee are: the Rt. Rev. David C. Jones, Bishop Suffragan of Virginia; the Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl, Jr., Bishop of Northwest Texas; the Rt. Rev. Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera, Bishop Suffragan of Olympia; and the Rt. Rev. James E. Waggoner, Jr., Bishop of Spokane. Outgoing HOD president, George L.
Read moreThe message was pleading, straightforward and from the heart: "Our beloved +John-David Schofield is under attack by +Mathes, +Bruno, +Swing & +Lamb for "abandonment" of the ECUSA. Can you please rally support for him, asking conservative priests to write to overseas bishop friends and beg them to put pressure on ++Rowan Williams to declare himself as the Alternative Primate for San Joaquin?"
Read moreTheological liberalism slowly sucks out the oxygen of classical belief that produces passionate faith, said Peter Corney director of the Institute of Christian Leadership in Melbourne, Australia recently. He made this observation even as attendance in the Anglican Church in Melbourne had dropped from 50,000 in 1981 to 21,000 in 2006. He said the church needed a vital orthodoxy.
Read moreThose seeking a divorce fall into three categories. Six of the dioceses want alternative primatial oversight; one diocese wants direct primatial oversight from the Archbishop of Canterbury himself, and an eighth diocese has expressed solidarity with the other seven but hasn't made a full commitment to leaving owing to the fact that they are in the midst of changing bishops and it would be inappropriate for an outgoing bishop to make a commitment for an incoming bishop.
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July 3, 2006
According to two orthodox Episcopal bishops it takes only four dioceses legally and ecclesiastically to form a new province. (In the Roman Catholic Church it is three). Could such a new province occur in North America, "it very well could," said one of the bishops?
Read moreOne British observer noted the following. "It is interesting to see how the results of GC2006 have gone down on Thinking Anglicans. One might have thought that the revisionists would be celebrating, crowing about their great victories. But there is a very muted reaction instead - they are trying hard to maintain their delusions - all the while knowing that it was a Pyrrhic victory: they won the battle but lost the war.
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